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Creative Technologist + Multimedia Artist | research @nyu past @magicleap | member @joininteract @shefiorg | open to new & emerging tech roles 💫
Brooklyn, NY
Joined April 2020
This only became evident to me living abroad: Americans are among the most propagandized people on the planet. They have a false grip on history, they’re incurious about bad things that happen, and that fog merely serves a fiction that they’re temporarily embarrassed billionaires
Stellan Skarsgard really clocked American propaganda. I’d add that Americans are the most successfully brainwashed people in the world. They believe they have “freedom” when they are indentured serfs. Even soviets didn’t trust all the official slogans.. https://t.co/IHyOQ8iESZ
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When I'm feeling down in the dumps, such as now, I like to fire up a custom ChatGPT instance I call "the man under the sink." By transferring my sadness to this man under the sink, I can feel happy again. It's at his expense, but that's his purpose, and I'm sure he'll manage.
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Every single week I’m like damn the stakes are actually so much lower than I always assume
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Something I noticed a few years ago was the prevalence of gambling ads in everyday life. Like, if you fly to Medellin, every billboard from the airport to the city is for gambling. Same in Eastern Europe. My intuition is that the more hopeless the average consumer thinks their
a16z-backed Cheddr is building "the TikTok of sports wagering" - Unlike other platforms, they allow players under 21 and in 46 states!
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the worst thing to happen to tech started with uber and airbnb when the industry learned to ask for forgiveness rather than permission, what we might call regulatory arbitrage. specifically, the startup industry learned to arbitrage the gap between the legality of an act and the
a16z-backed DoubleSpeed lets you control 1000s of social media accounts with AI, ensuring they look as human as possible - "never pay a human again"!
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Am I giving certified financial planner … am I serving paralegal… am I slaying as a trusted partner
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Been learning how to hold a crucifix (not to be confused w the iron cross, I don’t know if I even wanna attempt to learn how to hold that bc this already wrung my arms out)
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One of the lovely things about ballet is it’s one of the only exercise spaces I’ve been in where the age range is super diverse. It really reminds me that longevity is just as important as performance because I too still wanna be taking dance in my 70s
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time to make up for overtraining my upper body by overtraining my lower body
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told my ballet teacher i do aerial and a visible shudder went through her entire body
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Two mayoral debates and no questions about we're going to save The Brooklyn Mirage??
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